Hello

There was a moment when everything changed. Leading up to that moment, I missed my daughter's first day of school, every first day, for years. I was living a life that took everything and demanded more. In my non-existent spare time, I wanted to make a blanket for my daughter. It needed to be a real blanket. Made of real fiber. It must be genuinely soft, and not the empty promise of a yarn label that simply puts the word "soft" on the plastic bits spun together wishing to be yarn. It must be 100% natural angora rabbit yarn, from a company that I could verify was environmentally responsible and humanely treated their rabbits and humans.  This was apparently an equivalent to the just as impossible search for the Holy Grail. This was the moment everything changed. The yarn did not exist. I was not going to live in a world where this yarn did not exist. Therefore, the only next logical step was to make the yarn exist. 

 

Fast-forward, through the years learning how to spin yarn, and how to start and run a fiber arts and fiber animal business and you get to this page of a website.  You get to what Rabbitry & Yarns is-real. You connect with what it means to choose handspun yarn, unique patterns, handmade crochet and knit items, and humanely raised fiber from us. Rabbitry & Yarns is here because I believe we need more genuine good in this world. I believe we need more of what connects us, just like each fiber is connected in a strand of yarn. We need the things that achieve living, such as the true satisfaction one gets when completing a crochet pattern, or creating a beautiful scarf from one of our handspun art yarns. I believe we intuitively know real when we experience it, and it is a true joy to experience real.

 

At Rabbitry & Yarns, I raise American Angora Rabbits and Finnsheep. Treating animals well results in delight for the animals, the earth, our customers, and myself. I believe in lifelong learning. My skills in both fiber arts and fiber animals are to be improved for all of my life. A bit of this journey can be found on our YouTube channel, Rabbitry & Yarns. Perhaps you will check out more of our story there. 

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Sincerely,

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Stephanie Hubert, MSW, BSW

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